Seems like it would be a good way to funnel content into more niche communities by tying their posts to whatever is posted on a subreddit until they can take off on their own.

Does such a thing exist? If not, making it shouldn't be too difficult. I could probably whip something up real quick and toss it up on a software sharing platform.

Would anyone be interested in something like this? It could actually work really well with Lemmy's option to show/hide bot posts because people could choose if they want to see it at all.

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[–] connaisseur@feddit.org 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are whole instances dedicated to mirroring Reddit. However a lot of people on the fediverse oppose such features, on my home instance eg. lemmit is filtered out of /all stream. https://lemmit.online/

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thanks. This is interesting, but it looks like all of the communities are locked and only the bot gets to post.

I'm also referring to something that just copies the posts, but doesn't include the comments for either side.

[–] connaisseur@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

You are right, this is a 1:1 mirror of Reddit without any Lemmy user interactions. Since it is a one way mirror, any comments would not reach Reddit, I assume this is why it was decided to keep the communities closed down in such a way.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 1 day ago

If you want comments on such posts pick one and crosspost it to the relevant real community.

Nobody wants to comment on pure bot posts because you cannot get any replies from OP.